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Best ever happened in the WAY BACK times 2nd ED. Was playing a large game with this little pompous ass, all he did (the day before) is gloat about his damn terminators and how they were going to smash the Eldar. Back then you could take 1 exarch per squad and the exarch could be from a different type..... and they did not have to be with the squad. So I took 3 man Dire avenger squads and swooping hawk exarchs with disarm and turn aside blow. and 1 with a vortex grenade. Turn one I dropped a Vortex grenade on one 5 man termi squad killing 3 then it deviated on to the last 2. While I dropped the other exarchs on his other termi squad using their powers to totally rip off all of their weapons(by turn 2) then sky leap them again.... now his terminators just waited for me to pick them off at my leisure...... They had no more guns or power fist...... He pouted the rest of the game(while I dismantled the rest of his army by turn 4 he lost everything I lost about 5%.

I've had tonnes of great 40k moments. Any time I get in a game with someone who isn't a.... bad person, ends up being a fun time.
The happiest moment for me was actually watching a game my brother was having.

Now my brother is a rather reserved guy. I wouldn't say shy, but not really outgoing. He is self conscious about his painting and playing abilities (we're both in our 20s at the time). Its hard for me to convince him to come play games with me at the FLGS or local GW store. Even harder to get him to play against people who aren't close friends of ours. I was always trying to get him to play a few pick up games with other people, mostly so he can get past his initial hesitance, but also, at least in part so that when we both go, I can play someone else without basically having him just watch us instead of having his own fun playing.

So enter the day he finally plays his fist pickup game at our FLGS. I'm playing my DW against a necron player (it was a fun game, not important though. I lost if you must know but it was close). My game ends quick, so I watch my brother play this guy. Now we set my brother up to play this guy because he is "new". Well "new" guy lied, and was really a WAAC power gamer, and rather rude. My brother gets clearly overwhelmed by this guys just rushing things and saying comments like "hurry up", "you should know this and that", "you're such a noob" yadda yadda. My brother is clearly not having fun, and in a flustered state is making mistakes and forgetting stuff, and just going with whatever this guys says.

On turn 2 his KB charge some random unit, pathfinders I believe. There is also a few other combats happening. And before the fighting happens, I kindly remind him that guys he has with a special rule(can't remember) must issue and accept challenges. We look it up really quick to show his opponent, the whole time his opponent is yammering on, as a bunch of his guys have that. Fast forwards a bit, and a great roll on the boone table(I believe it is called), and bam a DP hits the table. Now this wouldn't be too bad, except by the end of turn 3 he ends up with 4 DP on the table! It was so much BS luck. Man, the other guy was rather wrong about having those "useless" PF on the random guys who kept winning challenges. The 4th one happens and the other guy is going on about how he must be cheating, even though my brother has been rolling a different kinds of dice (including ones handed to him by his opponent) the whole game. There are three other people, including myself, watching the game, all see him fairly roll and get the fourth DP. The guys hands him dice, and demands he re-roll. The spectators are calling BS on this, but my brother is still just meh, so goes with it, and rolls it a DP again. Some random guy just hands him a DP model to use, as my brother only had 2 with him (no clue where the 3rd one came from). He proceeds to use his casual CSM list to trounce this double riptide using .

The game ends. By reflex my brother goes for our traditional end game shake, the guy slaps away his and, packs his models up in a huff, and storms out. The whole way muttering about BS luck and cheese and blah blah. The place is quite. It was awkward. The kind of silence only caused by watching a grown man throw a tantrum over a game.

Now I turn to my brother, worried because he looked stressed. I'm thinking "oh man, he didn't enjoy himself, how could he, that guy was awful. He wont want to play pickup games here, blah blah". His face looks like it just dropped a 50lb weight and he gets this huge grin. He turns to me and in a hushed tone, "can you believe how bad I just wrecked that guy". I burst out laughing, the other guys join in. All kinds of praise for how well he did under the pressure of that guy, how well he kept his cool, and grats for beating him. He has his hero of the store moment, and makes a few friends. He explains the look on his face was him trying to keep in the excitement of his luck with the DP rolls, as he didn't want to irk his opponent.

Finally see him come out of his shell, and have a good time, in spite of a poor opponent, was probably the happiest this game have ever made me.

TLDR corny story of watching my brother enjoying the game makes me happy

First game ever not against my brother or friends
Left half my models at home had to on the fly buff my 5th ed wolves in a 6th ed game.
Playing against Necrons with 2 monoliths, some scarabs and swarms of warriors
Pop one of the monoliths first turn, first shot and have it blow up a bunch of warriors stacked infront of it to protect it from my Deep striking units.

My funniest recent memory was playing a game with a friend, and seeing his jaw drop when he notices my 2 squads of basic troops getting 120 rending hits on the charge

Send in the next wave conscripts.

Being able to shout "To a man, you say? Well, send in the next wave!" and being able to barf more conscripts hopelessly onto the table.

The only thing that could beat that was the few times where I arbitrarily used that ability because the conscripts had displeased me somehow. Yes, I know that they only took 5% casualties, but I'm just going to write the rest of those losers off anyways. SEND IN THE NEXT WAVE, I SAID!

 Ailaros wrote:
Send in the next wave conscripts.
The only thing that could beat that was the few times where I arbitrarily used that ability because the conscripts had displeased me somehow. Yes, I know that they only took 5% casualties, but I'm just going to write the rest of those losers off anyways. SEND IN THE NEXT WAVE, I SAID!

That's the propa way.

I was 17 and was playing Ultramarines versus against a Genestealer cult army at a GW store in College Park, MD.

There was this girl standing outside the window eating a piece of pizza and watching what we were doing. That made me a little nervous, I was thinking she was laughing at us. Went out to get a soda and she comes up to me, telling me how creative everything looks and asking if I could tell her what's going on.

Got completely thrashed at the table but got to do it with this beautiful girl from Canada. We saw a movie afterwards and did get to be friends. That was probably the happiest I have ever been playing 40k.

techsoldaten wrote:but got to do it with this beautiful girl from Canada. We saw a movie afterwards and did get to be friends.

You, sir, win the thread.

40k has never once got me laid. Not unlike virtually everyone else.

It seems that most of the best moments include either drop pods or grots. I think this should be a message to GW to give us Grotpods. Those are the things Meks hurl at the enemy when they want a good laugh.

Whenever a lowly/lone model holds off a superior force, or beat it. Like a single guardsman beating terminators or something like it.

Also, when a lowly/lone model wreaks havok WAY above his point cost.

Basically, whenever a model goes Rambo(or Marbo). Those are the happiest times I have in the game.

I was playing a 1000 point game using my SM against DE. The game before, I had done a single hull point of damage on his vehicles the entire game.

Turn 1:
The SM's go second, and only lose 3 tactical marines and a hull point (immobilize) on a dreadnought to the opening DE salvo.
The two remaining marines, which included one with a meltagun, move towards the DE and barely get into range of the meltagun. It hits and penetrates his Ravager (HS choice). He fails to jink out of the way, and the vehicle explodes. The remainder of my firepower does nothing.

Turn 2:
DE finish off the combat squad near their lines, and take off a single additional hull point on the Dreadnought
The lascannon on the other combat squad explodes the Venom.

This was repeated for each of the DE Vehicles, with the sole tactical squad hitting, penetrating, and blowing up each target.

Even though I lost, that was my happiest game, as it was the first time I had success destroying vehicles.

I have no clue how it happened (don't remember the rules of 2nd ed well enough), but I had a single Eldar scout go 2 combat rounds with a bloodthirster, survive and then disengage... so epic!)

Another, more recent awesome moment.... critical dice roll, I needed to pass a save or make a charge to contest/score an objective (don't remember)... but I rolled the die, dropping it two feet to the table... where it neatly landed right on a corner and stayed that way... both of us players laughed so hard that all the other guys came over... much more laughter ensued... I honestly don't even remember if I made the reroll or not... but I did win the game

Last one, 5th ed, I watched a couple guys play a baby apoc game (about 4k points)... IG player fires baneblade cannon at Gazghul who was about 8" or so away (knew he'd get charged next turn)... scatters back on himself (double 6s on the scatter, rolls all sixes for pen, apoc explosion, etc, guts his entire army). Old Ghazghkull survived just fine... priceless moment, comes up all the time!

I had a Big Mekk w/ a Shokk attack gun sitting right behind a unit of Lootas in ruins and I was playing a CSM army.

He brought Cypher and a squad of 10 terminators and infiltrated them in the middle ruins in the center of the board. I had sent out a few things to go for back field objectives but he targeted everything on my nob bikers and shot them down for a couple bikes and then cypher and the termies got the assault on them and ended up killing them!!!

This was 6th edition, that was the first time I ever lost that whole squad of nob bikers so I was a little upset about the whole thing. Well Cypher and the termies proceeded to assault the lootas in front of the big mek and weren't able to completely wipe them all out. (the nob bikers killed quite a few terms)

On my shooting phase my big mek w/ shokk attack gun attempted to shoot a unit of cultists off an objective but guess what. Doubles! And it was the double that killed the big mek and all units within so many inches around him. And guess how close Cypher and the termies were!!!

With that one role, I wiped out cypher and his unit, as well as my lootas, but hey they were going to die anyway! So revenge was mine!!!!!!! It was great.

He looked through a couple rulebooks, looked at my codex, and scooped up the unit. Removed From Play!